Tue 23 Dec, 2008
After I wrote the last post I was browsing the web and found some sad news. Davy Graham had passed away that very same day.
Goodbye Mr Graham.
Mon 15 Dec, 2008
I was more than pleased to see, as I was looking through the Radio Times Christmas edition that BBC4 are going to be showing a series called Prog Rock Britannia. Prog has been a long standing passion of mine and the Folk Britannia series was excellent. I learned a lot about british folk music from it and discovered Davy Graham (there is a also a clip on Youtube of the Folk Britannia bit about Davy) for the first time and had to come to terms with just how much folk music I really did like.
Prog or Progressive rock as it is fully named, is an odd one though. People cringe at the very name. I’ve even heard it said that Punk was a direct reaction to its excesses.
I remember in my early teens hearing prog and related bands for the first time. I wasn’t “into” music that much at the time, didn’t have any records as such, and only really listened to the chart music of the time, which thankfully did contain a few gems as Punk was just rearing its spiky little head. A friend had an older brother whose record collection was huge and full of the cream of early seventies rock. It was an education from which grew an eclectic love of music.